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1.
What did the Dutch call their colony in
North America?
New Netherlands
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2.
Why did the English want control of the
Dutch colony?
The English colonies wanted to expand in the
direction of the Dutch colony.
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3.
What were the Society of Friends
(Quakers) beliefs?
People are basically good and violence was
wrong. They were pacifists.
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4.
How did Pennsylvania get its name?
Penn’s
Woods
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5.
Define the right to trial by jury.
The right of people accused of breaking the
law to be tried by a group of fellow citizens.
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6.
Define the term immigrant.
Person who comes to a country to make a
new home there.
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7.
Name a few contributions of German
immigrants.
Conestoga wagon, PA rifle, barn raising
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Who wrote Poor Richard’s Almanac, a
book published each year with a calendar,
weather forecasts, stories, jokes and wise
sayings.
Ben Franklin
8.
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9.
Define Piedmont
The
foothills between the lowlands along the
Atlantic coast and the Appalachian Mountains.
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10.
How did many settlers reach the back
country?
They followed the Great Wagon Road from
PA.
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11.
Which immigrant groups settled
Pennsylvania?
Quakers,
Irish Catholics, German Lutherans,
Jews, and free Africans
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12.
How did the settlers in the backcountry
plant their food?
The settlers planted in the Indian way, with
corn, beans, and squash all growing from the
same mound.
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13.
Where did the first group of Jewish
immigrants settle in North America?
New Amsterdam
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14.
Describe the take-over of New
Netherlands by the English, such as was it
fiercely fought over or was there no
resistance.
There was little to no resistance because the
settlers disliked Peter Stuyvesant’s harsh rule.
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15.
Who organized the first firefighting
company in the colonies?
Ben
Franklin